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2021 London Book Fair
Rights Guide
NONFICTION
FOR GLOBAL RIGHTS INQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:
ALEXANDRA LEVENBERG—GLOBAL RIGHTS DIRECTOR
HATTY STILES—SENIOR RIGHTS MANAGER
CHARLIE SCHULTZ—GLOBAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATE
GLOBALRIGHTS@AMAZON.COM
Contents
Frontlist...................................................................................................................................................... 3
Backlist.....................................................................................................................................................25
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©2021. TOPPLE BOOKS, LITTLE A, AMAZON CROSSING, AMAZON FIRST READS, AMAZON, TOPICUS,
THOMAS & MERCER, LAKE UNION PUBLISHING, AND AMAZON PUBLISHING ARE TRADEMARKS
OF AMAZON.COM, INC., OR ITS AFFILIATES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Frontlist
Introducing TOPPLE Books, a new imprint with Joey Soloway, the writer, filmmaker, and TV creator whose credits include
the Emmy– and Golden Globe Award–winning Transparent and I Love Dick. Soloway is a prominent activist for LGBTQ
representation in the arts as well as one of the founding members of the #TimesUp and #5050by2020 campaigns to eradicate
sexual misconduct and gender inequity in the workplace. Building and expanding on that work, TOPPLE Books will spotlight
the voices of women of color, gender-nonconforming, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer writers.
I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir
PRECIOUS BRADY-DAVIS
JULY 1, 2021
A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans
advocate Precious Brady-Davis.
Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with “otherness.” Born
into traumatic circumstances, Brady-Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster-care system and the
Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced. Yet she realized by coming
into her identity that she had a purpose all along.
In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. She
reveals her determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey as a trans woman now
fully actualized, absolutely confident, and precious. She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their
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other side.
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PAGE A memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized, Brady-Davis’s sojourn is a song of self-reliance
300 and pride and an invitation to join in the chorus.
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At only thirty-one years old, Precious Brady-Davis is already lauded internationally as an award-
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winning social justice advocate, communications professional, and public speaker. A Nebraska native of
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deputy press secretary for the Central Region of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal initiative. Brady-Davis is known
for her remarkable story and dynamic, infectious presence. She finds purpose in engaging individuals in
conversations surrounding bias, bigotry, and injustice in their communities. Her activism and outreach always
revolve around the belief that humans can coexist with one another positively through embracing diversity.
Raising Them:
Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting
KYL MYERS
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
“What did you have? A boy or a girl?” Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would
identify with a gender. Until then…
As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl
binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather
gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a
confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered.
IMPRINT TOPPLE Books & Little A In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-
accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a
GENRE Memoir sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in
PAGE childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their
254 own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression.
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Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the
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limitless possibilities of being yourself.
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Dr. Kyl Myers is a sociologist, educator, and globally recognized advocate of gender creative parenting. Kyl’s
TEDx Talk, “Want Gender Equality? Let’s Get Creative,” encourages people to rethink childhood gender
socialization in an effort to break up the binary before it begins. Kyl is the creator of www.raisingzoomer.
Rights Sold com and the Instagram account @raisingzoomer. Kyl lives in Salt Lake City with their family. For more
Korean information, visit www.kylmyers.com.
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The One You Want to Marry
(And Other Identities I’ve Had)
SOPHIE SANTOS
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Up-and-coming comedian Sophie Santos takes us on a fast-paced and hilarious journey of coming of
age, lesbian and biracial, in the American South.
Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, the only child of a white pageant queen mother and a second-generation
Spanish-Fililino immigrant military officer, Santos lived in ten different cities and attended twelve
different schools before settling with her mother in the mostly white town of Arab, Alabama—pronounced
A-RAB!
From tomboy to pageant queen to southern belle to her dyke awakening at age twenty-one at summer
camp, where she was a counselor, Santos takes us on a laugh-out-loud journey as she tries and fails to get
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her man and her M.R.S. degree at U of Alabama only to find herself tumbling out of the closet into her big
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Sophie Santos, a comedian and writer based in Brooklyn, New York, was named by Time Out NY as one of
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at Union Hall. She has written for shows on Bravo and MTV and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe
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Festival and The Kennedy Center.
An American Covenant: A Story of Women,
Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America
LUCILE SCOTT
OCTOBER 6, 2020
A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to
transform America.
For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just
as long, they’ve been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across the nation are once again
turning to their mystic powers to #HexThePatriarchy and help fight the forces that seem bent on relegating
them to second-class citizenry.
Amid this tumult, Lucile Scott looks to the past and the stories of five women over three centuries to form
an ancestral spiritual coven: Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans; Cora L. V. Scott, nineteenth-
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century Spiritualist superstar; Helena Blavatsky, mother of Theosophy; Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist
GENRE Narrative Nonfiction witch and founder of Dianic Wicca; and Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate and preacher of the
New Age Gospel of Love. Each, in their own ways, defied masculine preconceptions about power.
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eyes to the paths forged by women who inspired the nation in their own times—and who will no longer be
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Lucile Scott is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She has reported on national and international health
and human rights issues for over a decade. Most recently, she has worked at the United Nations and amfAR,
the Foundation for AIDS Research, and has contributed to such publications as VICE and POZ magazines. In
addition, she has written and/or directed plays that have been featured in New York City, Edinburgh, and
Los Angeles. In 2016 she hit the rails as part of Amtrak’s writers’ residency program. An American Covenant
is her first book. She hails from Kentucky and moved to New York after graduating from Northwestern
University.
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A Transitional Life
ALEXANDRA BILLINGS
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings started transitioning in 1980 before the word transgender existed. She
forged an identity for herself in a time when she had no openly trans role models, no path to follow. It
wasn’t until she came across the term female impersonator in an ad for a club in downtown Chicago that
she realized there were people like her. A Transitional Life spans five decades and is a unique look at queer
history through the lens of accomplished actor and LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist Alexandra Billings.
Alexandra Billings is an actress, singer, author, teacher and activist. Billings played Davina on Amazon’s
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning hit TV show Transparent. She has also appeared on How To Get
Away With Murder, Grey’s Anatomy and the Amazon series Goliath, starring Billy Bob Thornton.
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I’m in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir
MORTADA GZAR, TRANSLATED BY MARK MUSSARI
APRIL 1, 2021
An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love.
As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a
chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both,
and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada
takes to the page to understand himself.
In his deeply affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector
in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and
journey to the US. Marginalized by his own society, he is surprised to discover the racism he finds in a new
one. At its heart, I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? is a moving tale of love and resilience.
IMPRINT Amazon Crossing Iraqi novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and visual artist Mortada Gzar was born in Kuwait in 1982, grew
up in Basra, Iraq, and now lives in Seattle, Washington. He earned a degree in petroleum engineering
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from the University of Baghdad and later participated in the Iowa International Writers’ Workshop. Gzar
PAGE is the author of four novels, a children’s book, and a short-story collection; he has illustrated two books
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COUNT for children. English translations of his work have appeared in Words Without Borders and Iraq + 100: The
First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq, and his journalism and political cartoons are
Rights Available featured in Arabic newspapers. Gzar’s animated films have been featured in international film festivals, his
All Languages film Language was awarded a grant by the Doha Film Institute, and he created the Seattle Arab Film Festival
hosted by the Northwest Film Forum.
Mark Mussari has his PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature from the University of Washington
in Seattle. He has translated Danish novels, short stories, and nonfiction for publication, including Dan
Turèll’s seminal crime novel, Murder in the Dark. A scholar of Danish literature, art, and design, Mark is
the author of numerous academic journal articles and the book Danish Modern: Between Art and Design.
Mark is also the author of numerous educational books, including those on Haruki Murakami, Amy Tan,
Shakespeare’s Othello and sonnets, and popular culture. His recent translations for Amazon Crossing
include Erik Valeur’s The Man in the Lighthouse and Carsten Jensen’s The First Stone.
“At once hilarious and truly haunting, I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? is a story of so much: war and savagery,
queerness and exile, love and loss. Mortada Gzar is the rare memoirist who understands memory itself—
illogical, impossible, magical.” – Rumaan Alam, author of the National Book Award finalist Leave the World
Behind
“Wildly inventive…Built on keenly observed cultural, political, and personal details and populated by vivid
characters, this book—illustrated throughout with Gzar’s starkly surreal ink drawings—draws readers
into a narrative web that is by turns shocking, funny, and deeply moving. A magical tragicomic story of
love, sacrifice, and conviction.” —Kirkus Reviews
“An exquisite story of life and lost love…Gzar’s nonlinear narrative and lyrical prose convey his deep desire
to reunite with his lover…hard to put down and difficult to forget.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Almost Romance
NANCY BALBIRER
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Nancy had quit trying to find love. She had recently turned fifty and had just gone through a painful
divorce. She had tried dating, but after a series of (often hilarious) relationship disasters, she decided to
focus on her writing and her tween daughter. Love was over. She was never getting married again.
Unexpectedly, Nancy received a Facebook message from a woman she had met once briefly at a party. This
woman urgently wanted to talk to Nancy. They met up the next time the woman was in New York, and she
told Nancy that their mutual friend, Howie, had been in love with Nancy for thirty years and she was trying
to get them together.
IMPRINT Little A That meeting with a near stranger began a whirlwind nine months in which Nancy and Howie
reconnected, fell in love, and got married. The romance and the thirty-year journey that led them to the
GENRE Memoir altar had so many twists and turns that it ended up as a full-page story in the New York Times. In the vein
of When Harry Met Sally, this is an uplifting and happy memoir about how sometimes timing is everything
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Nancy Balbirer is a writer and performer of stage and screen. She is the author of A Marriage in Dog Years
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We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and
Resurrection in the American Heartland
STEVE BEAVEN
JANUARY 1, 2020
The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its
coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.
By 1977 the University of Evansville’s Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national
championships. With a charismatic young coach and a freshman phenom, this small Indiana city hoped to
see its team shine in the national spotlight. Then, on a foggy night, after just four games, the plane carrying
the team and its coach crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board.
IMPRINT Little A The tragedy seemed insurmountable, a devastating blow to the identity of a fading factory town. But, with
the support of a city in mourning, ambitious new coach Dick Walters promised to rebuild the cherished
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institution. Assembling a team of castoffs, walk-ons, and overachievers, Walters restored the legacy of the
PAGE team and its fans. Against all odds, his young men made history.
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A tribute to those who were lost, and to those who carried on, We Will Rise is the rich and powerful story of
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All Languages Steve Beaven is an Evansville native and a former staff writer at the Oregonian. His work has appeared in
the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two sons.
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Enlightenment to Go:
A Feel-Good Book for Nonspiritual People
ANNA FUNCK
JULY 14, 2020
TV presenter Anna Funck takes a look at the mindfulness trend behind the scenes—and presents it
honestly and with a feel-good factor.
A book for everyone who is interested in spirituality, but wants to stay on the ground.
Yoga in the evening, standing sound meditation on the weekend, and always smiling happily—everyone
strives for the spiritual self, but where to find the time for all of that?
Anna Funck humorously talks about her environment, in which everyone has become so spiritual, starting
with her purpose-looking friend Kathrin and her rational buddy Sascha, who suddenly has his car cleaned
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GENRE Advice Anna delves into the mindfulness trend and asks whether it is possible for spirituality to work entirely
naturally for those who don’t feel like talking for hours at the highest astral level, but who simply want to
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Anna Funck, a TV presenter, producer, and author, and a spoiled child of the eighties, was born in Lübeck,
Rights Available Germany, and grew up as a self-confident child in the countryside on the Baltic Sea. After studying
All Languages journalism and media communication in Hamburg, she was immediately drawn to television, where she
worked as a TV presenter and editor. For over fifteen years, Anna has been in front of the camera for private
broadcasters, public service, and business, for whom she has traveled around the world for years. After
moving so many times, the mother of three has settled with her Bavarian husband and daughters, Karlotta,
Theresa, and Sophia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The Club King:
My Rise, Reign, & Fall in New York Nightlife
PETER GATIEN
APRIL 1, 2020
A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the
man who held the reins.
Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium—the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously
decadent clubs that dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influences reverberating around
the world. Across four decades, a single mysterious figure stood behind them all: Peter Gatien, the leading
impresario of global nightlife. His clubs didn’t follow the trends—they created movements. They nurtured
vanguard music acts that brought rock, house, grunge, hip-hop, industrial, and techno to the beautiful
ones who showed up night after night to tear the roof off every party. But as Peter and his innovative team
IMPRINT Little A ramped up the hedonistic highs, Rudolph Giuliani was leading a major shift in the city. Under the guise of
improving New York City’s “quality of life,” the club scene was targeted—and Peter Gatien’s empire became
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PAGE In this frank and gritty memoir, Peter Gatien charts the seismic changes in his personal and professional
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life and the targeted destruction of his nightclub empire. From Peter’s childhood in a Canadian mill town
to the freedom of the 1970s, through the excesses of the 1980s and the ensuing crackdown in the 1990s,
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The Club King chronicles the birth and death of a cultural movement—and the life of the man who was in
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Peter Gatien created, owned, and operated groundbreaking nightclubs over the span of four decades. In
his early twenties, he opened his first club, the Aardvark, in his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario. He went
on to helm an unbroken string of successful megaclubs, including Limelight in New York City, Atlanta,
Miami, London, and Chicago, as well as Manhattan’s Palladium, Tunnel, and Club USA, and CiRCA in
Toronto. Gatien was also the executive producer of the film A Bronx Tale. Today he splits his time between
Toronto and New York City, enjoying a home life with his wife, Alessandra, his four children, and his two
grandchildren.
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Flying on the Inside:
A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery
RACHEL GOTTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
In 2005, Rachel Gotto, a widowed and now single mother, looked at the imaging of her brain on the black-
and-white screen positioned at the foot of her bed. Still stunned in the aftermath of the massive grand mal
seizure that had left her passed out on the kitchen floor, and without any medical knowledge of the brain,
she could see the dark, shadowy mass at the right-hand side of her skull. What Rachel had was an AVM in
her brain.
An AVM, or arteriovenous malformation, is abnormal growth of tissue that over time has developed its
own system of blood vessels, and arteries and veins, which operates independently of the body’s normal
circulatory system. And according to her doctor, although likely benign, it was inoperable and would
IMPRINT Little A continue to grow, eventually killing her. But Rachel, who had already been through the trauma of losing her
brother to cancer and her husband to a diving accident when she was six months pregnant with her first
GENRE Memoir and only child, was not one to resign herself to her fate. As she had all her life, she would fight for herself.
And win.
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We follow Rachel’s story, with flashbacks to her life before the AVM, as she finds a surgeon who will perform
the delicate operation to remove the growth. But she slowly recovers, overcoming paralysis on her left side,
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having to completely rewire her brain, and battling an addiction to the cocktail of drugs she would have to
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Rachel Gotto lives in County Galway on the west coast of Ireland. An avid sailor, she feels truly at home on
the ocean. Her early life was spent in West Cork, where her experience of being on the sea equipped her with
the vital survival skills that would help foster and cultivate a tenacious spirit that would serve her as she
navigated tragedy upon tragedy throughout a period of four decades. Today these experiences makes her a
popular keynote speaker, an expert at overcoming challenges, and a much sought-after therapist and coach.
Widowish: A Memoir
MELISSA GOULD
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.
When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life
was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered
him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn’t end with his death.
Left to resume life without her beloved husband and raise their young daughter on her own, Melissa soon
IMPRINT Little A realized that the love between Joel and her lived on. Melissa found that she didn’t fit the typical mold of
widowhood or meet the expectations of mourning. She didn’t look like a widow or act like a widow, but she
GENRE Memoir felt like one. Melissa was widowish.
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preacher, the calming presence of some Real Housewives, and the unexpected attention of a charming
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musician.
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A modern take on loss, Widowish illuminates the twists of fate that break our world, the determination that
keeps us moving forward, and the surprises in life we never see coming.
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Melissa Gould’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post,
German Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and more. She’s an award-winning screenwriter whose credits include Bill Nye,
the Science Guy; Party of Five; Beverly Hills, 90210; and Lizzie McGuire. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Find
out more about Melissa at www.widowish.com.
Amazon Publishing / 10 / FrontlistAnger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir
LISBETH ZORNIG ANDERSEN
MARCH 1, 2020
An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the
darkness of a harrowing childhood.
Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three
older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their
chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without parameters.
It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish
social services system that forced Lisbeth to live where and how it saw fit. Coming of age with a myriad of
fears and emotional disorders, Lisbeth had three things that would become driving forces in her life: she
was extraordinarily bright, extremely willful, and exceptionally angry.
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From hell to liberation, this is Lisbeth’s emotional and galvanizing memoir told in two voices: that of a
GENRE Memoir young girl who was unwanted, challenged, and defiant, and that of a woman who channeled her rage into
a positive force as a passionate advocate for children’s rights. Whatever darkness defines the past, it can be
PAGE used to change the future. Lisbeth’s heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting journey is proof.
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Lisbeth Zornig Andersen is a former children’s ombudsman in Denmark and the author of the
Rights Available bestselling memoir Anger Is My Middle Name, her first work to be translated into English. Already well
All Languages excluding Danish known in Denmark for her advocacy and for My Childhood in Hell, a documentary detailing her early
years, Lisbeth received global recognition in 2015 when she was charged and later sentenced for picking
up a family of Syrian refugees in her car. This simple act of charity earned coverage in such publications
as the Washington Post, Le Monde, the Guardian, and the Huffington Post; and on air at the BBC and Al
Jazeera, igniting an international debate about the ethics and legality of humanitarian aid. Lisbeth has
also founded her own advisory consultancy and charitable foundation, where she continues her socially
centered work.
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HANNAH HOWARD
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Food writer Hannah Howard was at a pivotal moment in her life when she began searching out her food
people–women who’d carved a place for themselves in a male-dominated, punishing industry, women
whose journeys had inspired and informed Hannah’s own. On trips that take her from Milan to Bordeaux
to Oslo, and then always back again to her hometown of New York City, Hannah spends time with these
influential women, learning the intimate paths that led them each toward fulfilling careers. Each chef,
entrepreneur, barista, cheesemaker, barge captain, and culinary instructor expands our long-held beliefs
about how the worldwide network of food professionals works.
But, amid her travels, Hannah finds herself on a heart-wrenching personal path. Embarking on a journey
toward motherhood that brings her through devastating lows and unimaginable highs, Hannah grapples
IMPRINT Little A with joy, loss, and a lifelong obsession with food that is laced with insecurity and darker compulsions.
Looking to her food heroes for solace, companionship, and inspiration, she discovers new ways to appreciate
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At its heart, Hannah’s lovely and candid memoir explores food as a point of passion and connection, and a
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All Languages Hannah Howard is a writer and food expert who spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking,
serving, bartending, cooking on hot lines, and flipping giant wheels of cheese in Manhattan institutions
such as Picholine and Fairway Market. She has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the
Bennington Writing Seminars. The author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, Hannah has also
been published in New York magazine, Salon, and SELF. She also mentors women recovering from eating
disorders by helping them build happy, healthy relationships with food and themselves. She lives in New
York City. For more information, visit www.hannahhoward.nyc
Amazon Publishing / 11 / FrontlistBuen Camino...Yeah, Right
(Buen Camino…du mich auch)
KAROLIN JÄGER
JUNE 9, 2020
An amusing, cheeky, and relentlessly honest report of a journey on the Way of St. James—two months
that changed Karolin Jäger’s life forever.
“The 80-year-olds were already overtaking me and their ‘Buen Camino’ began to echo viciously in my ears. Yes,
the reason was the word ‘buen’! Please, tell me how can this journey be seen as good. Returning greetings has long
ago started irritating me. With every further pilgrim who overtook me and slammed these words on my head, I
had to hold on to myself not to reply with “shut up.”
Karolin Jäger needs a time-out. Frustrated by her job and not sure where her life journey should go, the
twenty-seven-year-old nurse sets out on the Way of St. James, the ancient route leading from the Pyrenees
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to the famous and ancient shrine of Santiago de Compostela. But nowhere is it written that the legendary
GENRE Narrative Nonfiction hike to Santiago and the journey into oneself is merely a walk...
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experiences on the Way of St. James.
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The author draws inspiration and strength from her travels, yoga exercises, and walks in nature. The issues
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of environmental protection and sustainability are particularly close to her heart.
Blackboard Monitor—A Mother
Changes Sides (Tafeldienst—Eine
Mutter wechselt die Seiten)
MILA KUHN
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Going wholeheartedly and courageously into the classroom, Mila Kuhn, a journalist and mother, tells of her
cold start as a teacher at a problem school.
“I liked them all, the whole gang. The good ones as much as the rebellious ones, the shy ones as much as the
talkative ones, the easy-care ones as much as those who also got on my last nerve.”
As a mother, Mila had a lot of complaints about her children’s teachers. But then she dared to experiment:
she changed her career and become a teacher in a primary school. Here she experienced a radical change in
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perspective. At first she struggled to connect with the class, but as soon as her dominance had been asserted
GENRE Narrative Nonfiction and respect earned, teaching with a sense of humor was actually possible.
PAGE With wit, empathy, and the courage to improvise, Mila pushes her way through every situation and reports
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day—a very entertaining and refreshingly honest snapshot of the daily madness in German schools.
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Mila Kuhn, born in 1966, has been a journalist since completing her master’s degree in German and having
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worked for the Westdeutsche Zeitung, among other publications. She has been a freelancer for twenty years
and writes articles for online magazines and daily newspapers, as well as newsletters and texts for apps
and advertising agencies. In 2018, the mother of two dared to jump into the cold water and teach for a few
months at a problem school near Wuppertal. She then reported on her experience in several large daily
newspapers. The lively response to these articles showed her how much interest there was in the shortage of
teachers and the strengths and weaknesses of the German educational system. This gave rise to Blackboard
Monitor—A Mother Changes Sides, in which the author talks about her experiences with a lot of humor.
Amazon Publishing / 12 / FrontlistWelcome to the United States of
Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
JEN LANCASTER
OCTOBER 1, 2020
New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out.
When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake
up, we’re bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-
inducing foods we’ve been enjoying for years. We’re judged by social media’s faceless masses, pressured into
maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and
followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more
and feel worse. No wonder we’re getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day–style alien invasion, how do
we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days?
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Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and
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ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get
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Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Here I Go Again and The Gatekeepers; the
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All Languages the memoirs Stories I’d Tell in Bars, Jeneration X, My Fair Lazy, Pretty in Plaid, and I Regret Nothing, which was
named an Amazon Best Book of the Year. Regularly a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, Jen has sold
well over a million books documenting her attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all—sometimes with
disastrous results. She’s also been seen on the Today show, as well as CBS This Morning, Fox News, NPR’s All
Things Considered, and The Joy Behar Show, among others. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband
and her many ill-behaved pets. Visit her website at www.jenlancaster.com.
The Italian Principle: That’s Happiness!
(Das Italien-Prinzip: So geht Glück!)
STEFAN MAIWALD
APRIL 13, 2021
The Italians are happier than than most people in other countries. Why? Italian connoisseur and
journalist Stefan Maiwald reveals how happy all’italiana is.
A book that makes you as happy as a plate of spaghetti with a sea view.
In this equally amusing and well-founded guide, Stefan Maiwald describes why the Italians are happier
than than most people in other countries.: why they don’t oppose everything, why their friends are more
important than psychiatrists, and why self-grown fruits and vegetables are more important than freshly
mowed grass.
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from the carefree southern lifestyle to find happiness all’italiana.
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Amazon Publishing / 13 / FrontlistThe Fallen Stones: Chasing Blue Butterflies,
Mayan Secrets, and Happily Ever After in Belize
DIANA MARCUM
MARCH 8, 2022
Diana Marcum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Tenth Island, turns her
gimlet eye on Belize—a picturesque and diverse Central American country that sits on the Caribbean coast.
Diana Marcum continues in the vein of The Tenth Island as her wanderlust takes her and her boyfriend, Jack
Moody, to the mountains of Belize. There they happen upon The Fallen Stones Butterfly Farm, a breeding
sanctuary tucked away at the top of a mountain that overlooks the dense rain forest of Belize. You wouldn’t
know it to look at the run-down jungle cabins that comprise Fallen Stones, or the workers commuting up a
mountain on rusty fixed-gear bikes, but Fallen Stones is famous within the zoological community. It’s there
that Sebastian, a Mayan butterfly farmer, has fiercely protected the “ancient Mayan secrets” that allow him
to not only breed but also ship Belizean blue butterflies—one of a scant handful of farms that successfully
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exports the delicate species to zoos and sanctuaries across the globe. The knowledge is so valuable that
GENRE Narrative Nonfiction Sebastian refuses to share it with the horticulturists that fly in from Europe and America, his co-workers,
and even his own brother, who helps him run the farm.
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eccentric billionaire who owns the ramshackle Fallen Stones. And, as she did with The Tenth Island, Diana
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will bring her curiosity and charm to illuminating a Belize that exists beyond the pristine beaches and
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By a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling Amazon author, The Fallen Stones is part travel
memoir and part journalistic examination, and a completely enchanting look at Belize that takes the
reader beyond the tourist destinations. In the vein of The Orchid Thief, Diana explores the tightly guarded
community of butterfly farmers who are responsible for shipping iconic Belizean Blue butterflies to the rest
of the world.
Diana Marcum is a narrative writer for the Los Angeles Times. In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature
writing for her newspaper portraits of farmers, field-workers, and others in the drought-stricken towns of
California’s Central Valley.
Your Blue Is Not My Blue:
A Missing Person Memoir
ASPEN MATIS
JUNE 1, 2020
From Aspen Matis, author of the acclaimed true story Girl in the Woods, comes a bold and atmospheric
memoir of a woman who—in searching for her vanished husband—discovers a deeper purpose.
Aspen’s and Justin’s paths serendipitously aligned on the Pacific Crest Trail when both were walking from
Mexico to Canada, separately and alone—both using thru-hiking in hopes of escaping their pasts. Both
sought to redefine themselves beneath the stars. By the time they made it to the snowy Cascade Range of
British Columbia—the trail’s end—Aspen and Justin were in love.
Embarking on a new pilgrimage the next summer, they returned to those same mossy mountains where
they’d met, and they married. They built a world together, three years of a happy marriage. Until a cold
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November morning, when, after kissing Aspen goodbye, Justin left to attend the funeral of a close friend.
GENRE Memoir He never came back. As days became weeks, her husband’s inexplicable absence left Aspen unmoored.
PAGE Shock, grief, fear, and anger battled for control—but nothing prepared her for the disarming truth. A
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a woman’s empowering reclamation of unmitigated purpose in the surreal wake of mystifying loss.
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Aspen Matis is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Girl in the Woods. Called “a powerful read” by
O, The Oprah Magazine, the book made the Guardian’s annual top-fifty list. The New York Times called Matis
“a hero.”
Her short-form writing has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Tin House, Psychology Today,
Salon, and Marie Claire. She now lives in New York City, where she visits cute cafés, writes madly, and studies
philosophy, following the threads of her fascination. To learn more, visit www.aspen-matis.com.
Amazon Publishing / 14 / FrontlistDivine Lola:
A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity
CRISTINA MORATÓ, TRANSLATED BY ANDREA ROSENBERG
AUGUST 17, 2021
Lola was the first “femme fatale” and one of the most famous women of the nineteenth century, dazzling
all with her astonishing beauty and passionate, daring temperament. The first “social celebrity” in history,
who rivaled Queen Victoria of England in prominence, turned out to be an impostor—a wildly ambitious
woman born in Ireland with the name Elizabeth Gilbert, who reinvented herself as a Spanish Flamenco
dancer named Lola Montez, claiming to be a descendant of Sevillian aristocrats. Artists, politicians, and
even kings all fell under her spell; one king even abdicated the throne for her. She lived a life of adventure,
traveling all over the world, and was truly a woman ahead of her time.
The author had access to all sorts of exclusive documents, unedited photos, private correspondence, press
IMPRINT Amazon Crossing articles, royal archives, and so on, in order to write this book. She also traveled the main areas in which
Lola’s life unfurled: Paris, Munich, and the United States.
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footsteps of these remarkable women, has led her to travel to more than forty countries and has resulted in
Rights Available eight biographies. Divina Lola (Divine Lola) is Cristina’s first to be translated into English. She is a founding
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Hungarian, Polish, and Spanish Geographic Society of London. For more information visit www.cristinamorato.com.
Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include
novels, graphic narratives, and nonfiction, including works by Manuel Vilas, Tomás González, Inês Pedrosa,
Aura Xilonen, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Paco Roca, and Marcelo D’Salete. Two of her translations have won
Eisner Awards, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the
American Literary Translators Association, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a
Tech-Obsessed World
KAITLIN UGOLIK PHILLIPS
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing
to our relationships with each other and with ourselves.
There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It’s also easier to shut someone
out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers—or even
acquaintances—when you can troll them, block them, or just click “Unfriend” and never look back?
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empathy.
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entrepreneurs, teachers, journalists, and scientists about moving innovation and technology forward
All Languages without succumbing to isolation. This book is for anyone interested in how our brains work, how they’re
subtly being rewired to work differently, and what that ultimately means for us as humans.
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is a journalist and editor who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her writing on law,
Rights Sold finance, health, and technology has appeared in the Establishment, VICE, Quartz, Institutional Investor
Korean, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese magazine, Law360, Columbia Journalism Review, and Narratively, among others. She writes a blog and
newsletter about empathy featuring reportage, essays, and interviews. For more information, visit www.
kaitlinugolik.com.
Amazon Publishing / 15 / FrontlistA Woman Like Me
AMANDA PROWSE
MAY 10, 2022
Amanda Prowse is best known for writing about the lives of ordinary women—women just like her. Now
she turns her gaze to her own life; the highs, lows and everything in between. With her trademark humor
and honesty, Prowse will detail her relationship with food, alcohol, her role as a stepmother, what it’s like
to have impostor syndrome, her relationship to her looks, her feelings about sex, and what it means to find
your calling later in life.
A Woman Like Me is for all women who feel ordinary on the inside and out…and there’s nothing wrong with
that.
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The Boy Between:
A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey
AMANDA PROWSE AND JOSIAH HARTLEY
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son
came to her with a real one…
Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university
student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling
author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling with ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that
could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times.
Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the
only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he
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might succeed in taking his life.
GENRE Memoir In this book, Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those who suffer, and to show them that help can be
PAGE found. It is Josiah’s raw, at times, bleak, sometimes humorous, but always honest account of what it is like to
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from the heart about a mother’s love for her child.
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clear message—you are not alone, and there is hope.
Josiah (Josh) Hartley lives in an isolated farmhouse in the West Country, but close enough to Bristol to
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enjoy its music scene. After a stint at the University of Southampton and another at the University of Bristol
Korean and one unsuccessful suicide attempt, Josh decided to write about his descent into mental illness and
the depression that has held him in its grip for the past few years. The Boy Between carries the overriding
message that things can and often do get better. It’s a book of reflection—raw, honest, and full of hope—the
proof being that Josh is still here and now excited about what comes next.
Amanda Prowse likens her own life story to those she writes about in her books. After self-publishing her
debut novel, Poppy Day, in 2011, she has gone on to author twenty-five novels and six novellas. Her books
have been translated into a dozen languages, and she regularly tops bestseller charts all over the world. This
is her first work of nonfiction.
Amazon Publishing / 16 / FrontlistTroubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral
Treatment Programs
KENNETH R. ROSEN
JANUARY 12, 2021
“The stories are enlightening and engaging...a necessary exposé.” —Kirkus Reviews
An award-winning journalist’s breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults
it inevitably fails.
In the middle of the night, they vanish.
Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control—suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety,
and rage—are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across
the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely
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GENRE Narrative Nonfiction New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual
abuse carried out at these programs. He lived it. In Troubled, Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on
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disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry.
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Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect,
exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption.
Kenneth R. Rosen has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, VQR, and the Atlantic. He is
a contributing writer at WIRED and the author of Bulletproof Vest. He spent six years at the New York Times,
his hometown newspaper, and now divides his time between northern Italy and Massachusetts. For more
information, visit www.kennethrrosen.com.
Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That
Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
(Second Edition)
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, WITH MARIA SULLIVAN AND KARI SADDLER
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Revised, updated, and expanded: the definitive guide to transformational leadership from a team of
expert executive coaches.
Over the past six years, Michael K. Simpson’s Unlocking Potential has helped leaders motivate, inspire, and
fully engage their teams. This revised edition, written with Maria Sullivan and Kari Saddler, builds on
that powerful foundation for a new generation of leaders. The key is not just managing but coaching—
developing the talents of your organization’s most important asset: the employees. In any successful
organization, that begins with the basic skills developed by Simpson: building trust, recognizing potential,
IMPRINT Amazon Publishing challenging paradigms, clarifying individual personal goals, executing flawlessly, giving effective
feedback, and tapping into talent. Now Simpson expands on his knowledge and experience as a senior
GENRE Leadership consultant with the management assessment firm FranklinCovey. This revised and updated edition also
features insights from Sullivan and Saddler and additional real-life lessons learned in the field by managers
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productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus.
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Indonesian, and Japanese Michael K. Simpson is one of the world’s preeminent business leadership experts and executive coaches,
having spent more than twenty-five years on the vanguard of management development as an author,
speaker, and senior consultant at FranklinCovey—where he taught at their Executive Leadership Summit
with Dr. Stephen Covey and Dr. Ram Charan—and as a management consultant to top corporations
including Marriott, GE Capital, Frito-Lay, Lilly, Nike, HSBC, John Deere, ExxonMobil, and Coca-Cola.
Amazon Publishing / 17 / FrontlistManiac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the
Modern Mass Killer
HAROLD SCHECHTER
MARCH 9, 2021
“The minute-by-minute account of the event and the firsthand reports create a strong sense of place
and time and bring this chilling story to life…a vivid narrative that’s sure to please those interested
in historical true crime tales.” —Library Journal
Harold Schechter, the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten
true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American history.
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school—one
of the most modern in the Midwest—Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school-board
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treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary
demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated
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a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight
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violence would foreshadow the terrors of the current age.
Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking
True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes
HAROLD SCHECHTER
JULY 14, 2020
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial
murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.
The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in
Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and
other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events
that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood
classics, and grindhouse horrors.
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So what’s the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace,
GENRE Narrative Nonfiction and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare,
Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on
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the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo,
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and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up.
Harold Schechter is an American true-crime writer who specializes in serial killers. Twice nominated for
the Edgar Award, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved,
The Serial Killer Files, The Mad Sculptor, Man-Eater, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller Hell’s
Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men, and the Amazon Original Stories collection Bloodlands.
Schechter attended the State University of New York in Buffalo. A professor emeritus at Queens College,
Schechter is married to the poet Kimiko Hahn. For more information, visit www.haroldschechter.com.
Amazon Publishing / 18 / FrontlistEverything Is Going to Be OK
(Wir werden das Kind schon schaukeln)
SOPHIE SEEBERG
MARCH 9, 2021
Reassuring advice for parents from family psychologist and bestselling author Sophie Seeberg—with a
twinkle in her eye and the key to more relaxation in the chaos of family life.
When alcohol-free cocktails at the pinnacle of bouts of maternal amnesia are one of the wild highlights of
the week, then good advice is priceless. As a family psychologist, couples counselor, and mother who tries
her best, Sophie Seeberg has packed a lot of tips and helpful observations into entertaining stories and
meaningful conversations.
This is not a conventional guide, but a book with a lot of humor and empathy, which helps exasperated
IMPRINT Topicus parents more easily master the challenges of everyday life: From the battles of helicopter moms to the
simple insight that a comforting chocolate muffin does not necessarily turn the child into a career failure
GENRE Advice later in life. Just take a deep breath and try not to be perfect—that’s what this original, universally positive
PAGE book advises, and shows how every mother and father can beautifully master this madness.
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Rights Available over twenty years. As well as preparing expert reports, she advises parents and couples in her own practice.
All Languages She has been married twice and has two grown daughters and a son. She lives in Munich, loves coffee, the
mountains, and the sea, and her greatest wish is that someone would finally invent beaming.
Graduation 3.0 (Reifeprüfung 3.0)
GWENDY TEUFEL AND CAROLA LUSTIG
DECEMBER 8, 2020
A new beginning with a patina doesn’t always have to be dusty. It can shine too!
Just turned fifty and everything back to square one? When bubbly Carola finds out that her husband is
cheating on her, she backs out of their joint company and starts all over again. Never say never. So, she looks
for her new happiness in different ways: attending training courses, changing her looks, going on dating
apps, and making new friends.
But things are not going to be as easy as they were when you’re twenty. There are doubts, obstacles,
and setbacks. It’s good that Carola’s best friend, Gwendy, is always there for her—come what may. The
levelheaded, esoteric Gwendy likes to help, even if she sometimes has completely different approaches.
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Carola Lustig and Gwendy Teufel are friends in real life too, and it looks like it will stay that way. They are
GENRE Happiness both almost in their midfifties (well, really just almost ), live in Hamburg, and work there as freelancers,
doing anything that has to do with texts. They have published a few books, but this is their first piece
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